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Sofía Salazar Magaña
Senior undergraduate student of Genomic Sciences. Interested in AI applications in the analysis of genome data and its harmonization with bioinformatic techniques
Education
B.Sc.,Genomic Sciences
Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES) Juriquilla, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Querétaro, México
September 2020 - Present
- Grade: 9.88/10
High School Diploma
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM)
Morelia, México
May 2017 - May 2020
- Grade: 9.69/10
Research Experience
Undergraduate Researcher
Im Lab, The University of Chicago
Remotely
September 2023 - Present
- Hae Kyung Im, PhD
- Conducted performance testing and workflow assembly for deep-learning software designed to predict genomic features.
Undergraduate Researcher
RegGenoLab, International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Querétaro, México
January 2022 - August 2023
- Alejandra Medina-Rivera, PhD
- Assembled a bioinformatic pipeline for analysis of RNA-seq data and and conducted differential expression analysis across multiple datasets of Lupus patients and unaffected controls
Teaching Experience
Guest lecturer at bioinformatics institutional course
Bioinformatic Fridays 2023 course, International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH)
Querétaro, México
2023
- Lectured on introduction to R lenguage usage for data analysis
- Undergraduate to graduate level class
Lecturer at RNA-seq analysis workshop
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH)
Querétaro, México
2023
- Lectured on RNA-seq analysis workflow using STAR and R
- Graduate level class
Talks and posters
Academic Days at LIIGH Symposium 2024
Talk
Querétaro, México
February 2024
- Studying the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus expression signature and contextualizing it in a Mexican cohort
Academic Days at LIIGH Symposium 2023
Poster
Querétaro, México
February 2023
- Lupus peripheral blood meta-analysis with Recount3 & Recount3-like processed RNA-seq data
ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX International Conference on Bioinformatics 2022
Poster
Querétaro, México
November 2022
- Lupus peripheral blood meta-analysis with Recount3 & Recount3-like processed RNA-seq data
Courses
Night Science Workshop: The creative scientific process
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH)
Querétaro, México
March 2024
- Main instructor: Itai Yanai, PhD
Google’s Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Google - Coursera
Online
January 2024
- Credential ID: KEBDX9FHLDSG
Workshop: Analysis of biological and biomedical transcriptomic data using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods with R
ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX International Conference on Bioinformatics 2022
Querétaro, México
November 2022
- Multiple Instructors
Introduction to the logical modeling of cellular networks, with applications to cancer and immunology.
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH)
Querétaro, México
January 2022
- Main instructor: Denis Thieffry, PhD, (ENS, Paris)
Academic Writing in English course
Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES) Juriquilla, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Querétaro, México
November 2021
- Main instructor: M.S. José Antonio Alonso-Pavón